Competition Sharing Sled Pulling Secrets

[Sled Puller]

We had a little fun with these on another site, please feel free to add some.



Knowing full well that the midwest has an advantage at the pulling track from exprience, we were asked to share some info.



Go ahead and print these off, and keep them in your truck at all times.







1. Always leave the line wide open.



1a. If your clutch can't handle that, let off a hair and wait for it to catch up.

2. Drive straight.



3. If it bounces, let off.



4. Obey the flagger, they carry a gun.



5. Never protest the results, if you are sure the dude was cheating, flatten his tires.



6. Always try to sneak into the gasser class, and blow their doors off, then give them back their trophy/money out of spite at the end.



7. Don't pull with your e-brake on, (Ford Guy, Jesup GA)



8. Always use four wheel drive. (Dodge Guy, Jesup Ga)



9. I f Sled Puller is there, let him win, becuase the whining will be worse than the gloating.



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10. Be sure to video tape all your pulls and those of the competition, and the not so competition, so you can get a fix in the winter months, watch and learn, and if somebody is getting close to you, quietly suggest misinformation.

 

[Rob Thomas]

Originally posted by Sled Puller

9. I f Sled Puller is there, let him win, becuase the whining will be worse than the gloating.

Somehow I don't beleive that.



You forgot one Gene... ... ... ..... Make sure you watch your pullin tapes over, and over, and over, and over, and over again.



Later, Rob

 

[Sled Puller]

Number 10, you got it!

 

[RX smoke]

#11 let the fords win or they wont show next year. :{

 

[MY6EATSV8'S]

good one gene! lol

 

[mgoncalves]

Make sure you have enough fuel to finish the run

 

[fj40charles]

Gene,



What does #5 mean? What does flattening a tire prove? Do sled puller put water in the tires? I know some of the 4x4 guys in competition put water in the front tire do if put more weight when climbing very steep obstacles.



Charles

 

[MY6EATSV8'S]

anyone have any pulling video's they can email me or know of any online to download?

-- email address removed --

 

[Sled Puller]

Originally posted by Sled Puller



5. Never protest the results, if you are sure the dude was cheating, flatten his tires.

.

It means, don't get mad, get even.



Most techs are onto the guys with concrete and lead powder in their tires.

 

[HoleshotHolset]

Nobody mentioned traction bars... .



Matt

 

[Sled Puller]

Flatten their traction bars????????

 

[HoleshotHolset]

Meathead! :-laf

 

[Rob Thomas]

Originally posted by HoleshotHolset

Nobody mentioned traction bars... .



Matt

Thats because Gene doesn't have any traction bars, he must depend on those billboard size stickers plastered all over his truck, for traction.





Later. Rob

 

[Sled Puller]

Maybe a few decals would have helped you to avoid getting beat by a FORD!!!!(the ford broke, BTW)

 

[Rob Thomas]

*sigh*, I said it before, and I'll say it agian, it wasn't JUST a ford, it was Franks ford!! Also it was my first legit pull, getting used to the clutch, nerves, sraced to death of overpowering the track LOL, bla, bla. All I can say say is, I can't wait to out pull you, just once, you thought you were bad after Muncie? LMAO.



Later, Rob



BTW, how much farther than I did you pull on saturday, with your decaled, twin powered, Detroit locked, mega HP, trailered truck?

 

[Sled Puller]

Ya Franks truck, the very one that I beat my first trip out this spring with new everything!! Same one that Brandon beat!!!



I was only a little bit in front of you, but that is at the BIG END of the track!!!

And I didn't even have those fancy traction bars!!!



Blame it on Mickey and his three brothers!!!

 

[MY6EATSV8'S]

Oh no say its not so Gene, you have a trailer queen puller now?!!!!!!!

 

[Sled Puller]

Bullskin -- 7500 Open Street 1st











Dragway 42, Ohio -- 7500 Open Street Series -- 3rd --Blew a Boot.











Mercer, Pennsylvania, ATPA Pro Stock Street Diesel -- 4th -- Broke the helper springs











Thunder in Muncie Indiana -- 7500 OPEN 2nd











Thunder in Muncie Indiana -- 8000 OPEN 1st











Lawrence County Fairgrounds, ATPA Pro Stock Diesel -- Bounced











Dragway 42, Ohio--7500 Open Street Series--1st -- Lost Rear Spider Gears











Dragway 42, Ohio--7500 Open Street Series-- 8th -- Bounced











Jefferson Fair -- Exhibition Lost Rear Yoke, AND Rear Spider Gears











Sheakleyville Homecoming -- Exhibition











Mercer Grange Fair -- Exhibition











Lawrence County Fair, ATPA Pro Stock Street Diesel -- 4th











Crawford County Fair -- Exhibition Blew a Boot











Scheids Diesel Extravaganza, Terre Haute Indiana -- 8000# Indiana Super Stock Diesel --12th --Lost Rear Spider Gears











The Great Stoneboro Fair -- Exhibition











New Centerville Threshermans Jubilee, 7500 Modified Diesel -- 1st -- Lost Rear Spider Gears











DETROIT LOCKER INSTALLED!!











Dragway 42, Ohio -- 7500 Open Street Series -- 2nd -- Wrapped up the points, Won the Series Championship with this pull.











York Springs, Pennsylvania, Mason- Dixon TDR Fall Brawl, Dynamometer run --1st Place -- Straight Diesel Fuel -- 557hp @ 1205+ torque











Jesup Georgia, 8000 Street Diesel Open -- 3rd Friday











Jesup Georgia, 8000 Street Diesel Open -- 4th Saturday











No breakage in Georgia, but the front U -- joint came off in pieces, and my hitch has a bend or two in it.





All in all, a pretty good year, considering we doubled the horsepower, doubled the clutch, doubled the turbos, and Doubled the size of tire.





Only came home on a trailer 6 times, and 3 times it was not needed, but taken as a precaution





I think that sums it up!! I won Muncie and drove - almost 8 hours one way. Every truck in the top 10was trailered, except for Bill and Jim.



I'm getting tired of changing tires.

 

[MY6EATSV8'S]

your getting tired of changing tires and we only get to pull about 5 times a year you lucky son of a gun:--)

 

[Sled Puller]

From about May on, you can pull at least 2 nights a week in a 5 hour radious around here.

The antique tractors pull more than that, those guys pull all weekend, several times a day, but it is like watching parking meters expire.



California is full of farmers, can't believe they don't have more pulls.